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High-speed chase ends with Wiggins man in jail

Speeds exceeded 100 mph on I-76 going wrong way

ByJOHN LA PORTE Times Editor

Posted:
12/18/2012 01:50:30 PM MST

A high-speed chase from Morgan County into Logan County Monday evening ended with a Wiggins man jailed on charges of felony eluding and driving while his license was revoked as a habitual offender, the Colorado State Patrol has reported.

The chase started after Sidebottom was reported going east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 76 about six miles east of Brush. Sidebottom fled when a Morgan County sheriff's deputy tried to stop him about 14 miles east of Brush, Davis said.

The patrol and the Logan County Sheriff's Department joined the pursuit about 20 miles east of Brush after a near head-on collision, the trooper said.

The patrol used the intervention maneuver about 26 miles east of Brush, Davis said.

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